Game-board.



W. J. ARCHER.

GAME BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 13, 1911' V L25,9%U.. Patented May 7, 1912.

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4 UNITED STATES 1- WILLIAM J'.- ARCHER, or wasnrneronvrtta; onro,'assreiron oro DE BOLT, or. EAST LIVERPOOL, 01110.

Washingtonville, in the county ofJColumbiana and State of Ohio,- haveinyentedcertain new and useful Improvements v 1n Gamecation, reference,being panying drawings. My 1n\ *ent1on re1ates to new had to theaccomlarly to the class of games comprising a checkered board and aplurality of playing pieces therefor and my object is to provide agame'of this character. which will require considerable. thought andskillin-the playing thereof, and at the same time be extremelyinteresting both to young and old.- i

' A further object is to provide a playing board, one'face of which'isprovided with a central square surrounded by a'plurality of smallersquares, said small er and said central square being divided intosmaller tri-.

angles.

A furtherobjeot "is td provide a plurality Lof playing pieces, one ofwhich has a different identity from the others. t IVith these and otherobjects in VleW, my

invention consists in the novel features ofconstruction, combinationvand arrangement of parts asjwill be hereinafter referred to and moreparticularly pointed out-inthe,

specification and claims.

In the accompanying drawings formingia partof this application, Figure 1is a top plan view of the-playing board. Fig. 2 is a top plan view ofoneof the playing pieces used, and, Fig. 3tis a similar view of anotherof the playing pieces used. In carrying out my invention, I shall re-:

fer-to the drawings in which similar reference characters des gnatecorresponding parts throughout the several. views and in which 1indicates a board of any preferred size, but preferably octagonal inshape, as shown in the drawing, adapted .to be placed on a tableor'thelike, whe reb'y a game may be played thereon. Said board 1 has one facethereof wholly divided into numerous Speciflcati ono f Letters Patent.'Applidation fi ed March 13,1911. Serial No. 614,045.

and useful improvements in games andinore particu-v GAME-BOARD.

is designatedfrom the other triangles by being'of a diiierent color.

A plurality. of thetriangles surrounding the square 3 a'reoutlined bymeans of the Patented'May 7,191.2.-

,line'S and colored differently from the tri;

" angles surrounding-the same, so that when properly colored, there willbe three sets of colored triangles, colored preferably as follows: Thecentral square,'white, the collec- .tion of triangles surrounding thesame, red,

and the triangles surrounding said .latter collection, colored inblue,but I do not wish to limit myselfto these colorsand, of course,-

may use any colors desired so long as the three sets arecoloreddifferently. The 'outi line of the outer collection of trianglesis provided-with sixteen circles of dots and the outline of the middle.collection of triangles is provided with twelve circles 'or dots, saidcircles or dots peing placed at the points of intersection offthe linesforming the'sides square- 3 is further provided. witha central circle ordot at the points of intersection ofdescribed.

8 1 jwillbe hereinafter and more particularly I y In order to playthegame',twenty-eight,

Yplaying pieces ]:v of the same identity andan additional playing piece5 of a different identity than the other pieces'are provided,

said twenty-eight pieces being placed'alpon the twenty-eight circles onthe outlines of the twoco'llect-ions of triangles and the ad- 1 ditionalplaying piece being placed on the .central'circle within the central.square 3. As st'ated,-this additional, playing piece 5 is of a differentidentity than the playing pieces 4, and to thisextent, any, preferredforms of designs 'may' be placed thereon which are 95,

appropriate to the name given the game.

v This, game is played as follows: The twenty-eight pieces it of .the-.same identity are placed upon the twenty-eight circles or dots, abovedescribechand the single piece 5 is placed-in the central circle of thecentral square, it being understood that this game is to be played liy'two persons, one

of whom is to care for the central'figure, 105

while the other takes charge of the twentyeight surrounding'men. F orthesake of convenience, I shall refer to the central playing piece andthe twenty eight-sur and bases. of said'triangles and the central I"rounding/pieces as the outlaw and the detectives -respect iv ely, andin moving the men, it must be understood thatthe same are to'be moved onthe lines forming the triangles, to the' points of intersectionthereof.- The outlaw makes. the first liQinaI1d the .detectives follow,each 'un'drStQod thatthe men formin'g-the desideoving alternately, andit will be here ,10 teotivesfl "may only move forwardly to- ;ward thecenter'o'r on lines retaining them the's'a'me' distance from saidcenter, and

5' said menmay not jump the central figure when in position to do so,while said central' figure or outlaw f. may move in any,

direction whatsoeverat-any time and may jump any of the. detectives whenun- Protected, tha not follwedmediately by'an'additional man. Thecentral figure or''outl-aw. may move around-..

, in any'direction, as stated,'as far a'sthe I' 1 'v outline 3 'and thedetectives maymove up to and on the line forming the square 13, and byallowing the f outlaw to jump the various other men -lwhen unprotected,a

method-of elimination-is provided.-

The idea of the gameis to have the dei 1' "f tectives charge upon theoutlaw in such yforces' as'to prevent said o'utlaw.? from f jumpingsaid-detectives, thereby for-c ing him to move back intothe-cent-ral'square 31' TWhen the outlaw or central. figure -h'as beencornered in'thecentral square so that he cannotmove in any direction,the 35 game has'been won. and'it will be understood that itis possiblefor the central figure to' be -cornered beyond the central square,

' if-the playerbe not so skilled as toprevent the same. I

In, playing the game, it will be, appreciated that a great number ofdetectives ':;will be jumped by-'- the central figure,

thereby eliminating them from the game, and by allowing the centralfigure to move in any ,direction, while the surrounding men may onlymove 1n restricted directions,

considerable thought' will be required to charge of said central figure.1

capture the central figure. If the, central figure jumps such a greatnumber of men as to prevent it being cornered, the game is, of'course,,'won by the player-having It will be appreciated'when this game.1 his played properly, that a-great amount of 155 thought and skill isrequired so. that the same will be [doubtless interesting to both Holdand young. As the game also requires considerable forethought in themoving of f "thevariousmen, it will be seen that, the same is a"wonderful training for the mind.

- additional identity.

' It may app'ear'at-first that this game with twenty-eight men on oneside and one on the :other is uneven or one-sided, but whenconsideringthe limitations of the twenty eight men, it will beappreciated that the chances are equal, possibly favoring the'one man'.

, 1. A game of the class described, com:

prising a board having an. octagonal outline thereon, the spaceinclosed' by said outangles, saidtriangles being arrangedin sets andsaid sets, distinguished from one another, one of said, setsbe'ingoutlined to line being divided into-a plurality of trii form asubstantial 'sq'uare, a plurality of playing pieces of the sameidentity, andjan pleying piece of a different 2. A game c t-the classdescribed, comprising a board ha'vin an octagonal o'ut-,

line thereon, the space inclosed b said'outlinebeing divided into aplu'ra ity of triangles arranged in sets, said sets beingdistingui'slied' from' oneanother and the apices ofoneof said sets beingprovided with certain indications, a plurality of playing pieces of thesame'id'entity 'adaptedto be initially positioned on the aforesaidindications,.and an additional playing iece of a different identityadaptedtd be initially positioned in a predetermined place: on said--board, the first mentioned playing pieces be- 3. A- game of-the classdescribed,1comsets .ing limited in their movements on the board. g

sets being provided with certain indications,

the triangles of one of said sets being outlined to forma substantialcentral square, a

lurality of playing pieces of the same identity adapted to be initiallypositioned on the indications at 'the apices' of tlievtriangles in oneset, and an additional playmg piece of,a diflerent identity adapted tobe initially positioned inthe" aforesaid central square, the firstmentioned playing pieces being restricted in their movements on saidboard.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiik my signaturein the presence of twowitnesses.

.- Witnesses: 1 v I ALIN LuTAY LOR, J Davis. '1

IWILLIAM J.-IA RCHER.

